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Insights, tips, and resources for tomorrow's software developers and IT professionals -- and those who teach and coach them -- from kids coding coach and advocate Michael O'Connell. Michael currently leads coding clubs, camps and activities for grade school students. Prior to turning his focus to helping kids learn coding and computer science concepts, Michael served as developerWorks Founding Editor in Chief (and at that time this blog covered the evolution of developerWorks and related topics of interest to the dW community).

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Personally, I get a real boost every time I hear a story about how developerWorks has helped the community of developers and IT professionals. I'm also regularly striving to better understand what works best and is most valued among the many things developerWorks does (so that we know what to do more of).
For example, dW community member "Boon amal (Boona)" writes, "WOW, I'm so glad I found your tutorial; it's made my life so much easier! ODFpy tutorials are scarce, and great ones are non-existent. Thank you for taking the time to create this, you really saved the day."
Wow, indeed -- kudos to developerWorks Contributing Author Federico Kereki for saving the day with and making life easier with his article, " Open output: Producing ODF spreadsheets from your Web services ," which explains how to directly generate files with PHP and Python.
Another example: dW community member "Martin Kirouac (MartinKirouac-IMConsultant)" says the article " DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows database administration " (authored by Samuel Poon, Fraser McArthur and Priti Desai) is "Great! A really nice goto article in my everyday job," and adds, "Thanks a lot for publishing this."
Feedback like this inspires me (and I bet many others on the developerWorks team, and of course our authors). It's great to know that our content and resources are not only helping solve a fleeting problem on occasion, but also... [More]